Per the show guide, it included video (with television receivers and video systems panels), audio (including CB radio, radio, audio compacts, audio components, and tape equipment panels), and calculator and watch areas, considered separate component conferences. Winter CES held January 7–9 in Chicago, at the Conrad Hilton Hotel. Until that point, VCRs cost upward of $50,000 and were used mainly by TV stations, but the Philips model with a built-in tuner was just $900.

Philips unveiled the first-ever home VCR, the N1500 videocassette recorder. On view: the latest pocket radios and TVs with integrated circuits. The 200 exhibitors attracted 17,500 attendees to the Hilton and Americana hotels over those four days. The first CES was held in New York City from June 24 to 28, 1967. In Las Vegas, the show is one of the largest (the other being CONEXPO-CON/AGG), taking up to 18 days to set up, run and break down. In 1998, the show changed to a once-a-year format with Las Vegas as the location. The next 'Summer' show was scheduled to be held in conjunction with Spring COMDEX in Atlanta, however when only two dozen-or-so exhibitors signed on, the CES portion of the show was cancelled. The 1996 Winter show was again held in Las Vegas in January, followed by a Summer show this time in Orlando, Florida, however only a fraction of the traditional exhibitors participated. However, the inaugural E3 gaming show was scheduled to be held on the West Coast in May and proved a source of increasing competition, causing the Philadelphia Summer CES show to be cancelled.

However, since the summer Chicago shows were beginning to lose popularity, the organizers decided to experiment by having the show travel around to different cities starting in 1995 with a planned show in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The winter show was successfully held in Las Vegas in 1995 as planned. From 1978 to 1994, CES was held twice each year: once in January in Las Vegas known for Winter Consumer Electronics Show (WCES) and once in June in Chicago, known as Summer Consumer Electronics Show (SCES). The event had 17,500 attenders and over 100 exhibitors the kickoff speaker was Motorola chairman Bob Galvin. It was a spinoff from the Chicago Music Show, which, until then, had served as the main event for exhibiting consumer electronics.

The first CES was held in June 1967 in New York City.

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